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Health Service Reform: Motion (6 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: There are 900,000 young people under the age of 16, 400,000 of whom are covered by health insurance taken out by their parents, but Deputy Twomey now proposes that taxpayers should pay for that.

Health Service Reform: Motion (6 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: Will those young people be able to access private hospitals or what hospitals and services will they be able to access? What will happen when they are 17? Will Deputy Twomey's proposal be compulsory and will the service be provided free to all of them? These are significant issues. I must be honest about this. Twenty years ago, it was Progressive Democrats policy to ensure universal...

Health Service Reform: Motion (6 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: It is.

Health Service Reform: Motion (6 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: Let the Deputy look at what insurers are doing all over the world with regard to closing hospitals.

Health Service Reform: Motion (6 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: I am dealing with that.

Health Service Reform: Motion (6 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: On the issue of nurses, they make up the largest number in the health care system at 35% of the workforce. We have the highest ratio of nurses in the health system, not just registered nurses, with 15.5 per 1,000, the highest in the OECD. In the workforce there are 12.2 nurses per 1,000. In Canada that figure is seven, across the EU it is approximately 8.5 and in the UK it is eight. We...

Health Service Reform: Motion (6 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: Within the health system I meet well motivated individuals from different specialties and each one tells me we need so many beds for each specialty. If I added them all up, we would need to double the number of beds we have in the system. We cannot adopt a piecemeal approach. We must work on the basis that everybody works together to deliver the service and that the system responds to...

Written Answers — Animal Welfare: Animal Welfare (6 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: The use of live animals in scientific research and other experimental activity is strictly controlled in accordance with the Cruelty to Animals Act 1876, as amended by the European Communities (Amendment of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1876) Regulations 2002 and 2005. Under the Act, experiments on live animals can only be performed by persons licensed by the Authority (Minister for Health and...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (6 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (6 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to provide the information requested by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter investigated...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (6 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: The need to develop services for persons with cystic fibrosis is widely acknowledged and was identified most notably by the Pollock Report, commissioned by the Cystic Fibrosis Association of Ireland, and the Health Service Executive Working Group which has conducted a detailed review of cystic fibrosis services. I have identified the enhancement of services for people with cystic fibrosis as...

Written Answers — Health Repayment Scheme: Health Repayment Scheme (6 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: The Health Service Executive has responsibility for administering the Repayment Scheme and the information sought by the Deputy relates to matters within the area of responsibility of the Executive. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter investigated and to have a reply issued to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Pharmaceutical Services: Pharmaceutical Services (6 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: In 2005, a process was begun to examine all aspects of the drugs supply chain, with a view to achieving greater value for money in the pricing and supply of drugs and medicines to the health services and the GMS and community drugs schemes, consistent with patient safety and continuity of supply. This process was agreed by the Cabinet Committee on Health. A joint HSE/Department of Health and...

Written Answers — Health Repayment Scheme: Health Repayment Scheme (6 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: The Health (Repayment Scheme) Act 2006 provides a clear legal framework to repay recoverable health charges for publicly funded long term residential care. All those fully eligible persons who were wrongly charged and are alive will have their charges repaid in full. The estates of all those fully eligible persons who were wrongly charged for publicly funded long term residential care and...

Written Answers — General Medical Services Scheme: General Medical Services Scheme (6 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: There is a common list of reimbursable medicines for the General Medical Services and Drug Payment schemes. This list is reviewed and amended monthly, as new products become available and deletions are notified. For an item to be included on the list, it must comply with published criteria, including authorisation status as appropriate, price and, in certain cases the intended use of the...

Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (6 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: I understand that the person in question was referred in November 2006 to the Mater Private Hospital for an out-patient appointment by the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF). I am advised by the NTPF that the person will be contacted shortly by the Mater Private Hospital with a date for an out-patient appointment.

Written Answers — Telecommunications Masts: Telecommunications Masts (6 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: The consensus of scientific opinion to date regarding possible adverse health effects from electromagnetic fields (EMF) exposure from mobile phone masts is that there is no evidence of a causal relationship between such exposure and ill health. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has assessed the many reviews carried out in this area and has indicated that exposures below the limits...

Written Answers — Health Repayment Scheme: Health Repayment Scheme (6 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: The Health Service Executive has responsibility for administering the Repayment Scheme and the information sought by the Deputy relates to matters within the area of responsibility of the Executive. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter investigated and to have a reply issued to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (6 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services is a matter for the Health Service Executive and funding for all health services has been provided as part of its overall Vote. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular issue raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division...

Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (6 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has asked the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.